Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Quotations
Music
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
